Zsolt Bayer, a co-founder of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, a long-time friend of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the right’s most prominent publicist, sees the current refugee crisis in Hungary and Europe as a racial war intended to annihilate white people. Mr. Bayer shared these thoughts at a rally in Budapest this past Sunday, attended by an estimated 1,500 people, and organized to protest a magazine cover in Hungary, which portrayed Mr. Orbán with a mustache that resembled that of Adolf Hitler. In this paper, I have suggested before that Fidesz and the far right Jobbik party are indistinguishable. Perhaps I was wrong, because based on Mr. Bayer’s speech, Fidesz is now more extreme than the ominous opposition party.

Mr. Bayer’s premise, that dark forces are conspiring against white people throughout the world, is framed in a quote from controversial author, historian and race theorist Noel Ignatiev. Mr. Ignatiev has long seen race as a social construct, something that Mr. Bayer fails to mention to his audience, who he left thinking that the American theorist wants to annihilate white people. Mr. Ignatiev has spoken about wanting to “abolish the privileges of the white race” and added: “The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin.” Mr. Ignatiev, a long-time Marxist, is essentially suggesting that a type of constructed white identity carries with it automatic privilege, rendering equality between all races impossible. The theorist could have clearly phrased this in a less inflammatory matter, and his theories are Manichean and possibly somewhat outdated in the twenty-first century. But regardless: his overarching message of ingrained, implicit racism is worth considering.

The Fidesz co-founder portrays this Marxist academic as an influential thinker among western policymakers, a mover and a shaker, a man who walks the corridors of power with confidence and ease. This is simply not true, but Mr. Bayer’s audience is left thinking that a madman who wants to commit genocide against white people is a powerful voice in Washington.

“There are all kinds of weapons: traditional, chemical, atomic. And now we see that there are also racial weapons. This is the weapon that they, the invisible hands, have employed against Europe and against the white race,” declared Mr. Bayer in Budapest.

The term “invisible hands,” within this context, is coded language, easily deciphered by everyone in that audience and on the Hungarian right as a reference to liberals, left-wingers and Jews. (Mr. Ignatiev is, himself, of Jewish origins.)

“Why has everyone, from everywhere and all at once, decided to start heading towards Europe? Why? Let us declare loudly and level-headedly: this is an artificial, manufactured mass migration. And its goal is the final and irreversible transformation of Europe’s ethnic and religious composition. And for this, they have already produced the necessary ideologies. According to the Harvard professor, the white race must be made to vanish,” said Mr. Bayer. At several times in his speech, the crowd, fired up by the orator, interrupted him.

The other “ideology” that Mr. Bayer dismisses is the fact that Europe’s population is ageing and dwindling, and that immigration is most likely the only way to ensure a large enough active adult population to keep pensions and social services sustainable. Mr. Bayer believes that European corporations want to employ “Syrian masons and Bedouin goat-herders” in their factories, rather than native European youth, because they represent cheap labour.

“Our leaders in Brussels want to sell Europe from over our heads and they want to destroy our Europe…Anyone who dares to oppose this automatically becomes a Nazi,” said Mr. Bayer, explaining to his audience why Viktor Orbán is often labeled as an extremist.

“But I have some bad news for these criminals, namely for the Austrian chancellor, the French foreign minister, the western journalists, who are liars to their very core and, of course, for the good-for-nothing people behind the Magyar Narancs publication: of the 500 million natives of Europe, 450 million do not want to see any more immigrants. The Hungarian prime minister represents their opinion,” declared the Fidesz publicist.

The crowd held up signs that read “Je suis Orbán,” amidst dozens of Hungarian and Szekler flags and the event’s organizers, the Forum for Civic Cooperation (Civil Összefogás Fórum – CÖF), a pseudo-NGO, fully in line with Fidesz party interests, declared that further protests were coming against the “liberal fascists” and those who criticize the prime minister.

Author: Christopher Adam
Christopher Adam received a B.A. in history from Concordia University, an M.A. in East/Central European and Russian-Area Studies from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the history of the Hungarian diaspora during the postwar period. Christopher is the founding editor of the Hungarian Free Press, as well as the founder and editor-in-chief of the Kanadai Magyar Hírlap Hungarian-language paper, which won Hungary's 2015 Free Press (Szabad Sajtó) Award. Christopher resides in Ottawa, Canada.

Well, on certain American Youtube channels (such as Infowars) it does not take a long time to find white genocide conspiracy theories. However, the US is only about 63% white so it would be electoral suicide for a politician to indulge in these theories. Plus it would be hypocritical since the colonialists who founded the country didn’t seem to care about the demographic change of the Native Americans.

Excellent analysis, indeed! I am a little surprised by the comments on the National Post site, underneath the article…The refugee crisis should not be seen from the perspective of a left-right divide, but through the lens of humanism. The comments in the NP, however, seem to view all of this through the prism of the Canadian election and the perception of the academia having a left-liberal bias.

If he wants to physically exterminate fair-skinned people, why did he write a book called “How the Irish became white”, in which he argued that the Irish were not initially considered “white” in early America?
Look, I believe he is a self-hating bigot but you are not telling the truth of his intentions.

There has not been a single comment on the NP article that showed any sign of reflection of critical thinking (and some of it sinks quite low into crudity and ad hominem snipes). Well worth ignoring. The thoughtful readers are thinking, not rushing to rant reflexively. But now that the trolls have set the stage, it’s unlikely that there will be any coherent commentary at all.

Hungary used to be the original melting pot of the world, with Turkic, Germanic, Slavic, Semetic, Mongol, and diverse other genetic influences. What is a “pure” Hungarian exactly? I have never met one – the Hungarian identity bares many influences, and is defined by worldliness, in my experience. To believe that Hungarians originate from under a rock in the Carpathian basin… All I can say is, people do not spawn from rocks, Mr. Orbán!

Unfortunately Hungary is turning into a caricature – no one really cares what Orbán thinks, and he’s making the Hungarian people look terrible to the rest of the world. I don’t believe that even the old Communists were so racist. The solution to Hungary’s problems will come from love, not hate.

Yes, Hungary has serious economic problems, but they will not be solved with this idiotic faux-nationalism rooted in populist propaganda. It achieves nothing. Is this all an act to build an emotional populistic case against the World Bank, IMF, foreign banks and the perceived questionable EU policies? No matter what his agenda, Orbán should leave “racial purity” out of his equation.

Why are you smarty pants so blind to the blending out of existence of white people? Just because “white” is a social construct doesn’t mean it is illegitimate. Hispanic is also a construct but liberals push that all the time. You’re going to keep condescending and congratulating yourselves until one day the disenfranchised whites your nauseating attitude creates revolt and stomp you to death. Wake up idiots.

Zsolt Bayer is right. Everything is pointing in this direction: if currents trends continue, Europeans will be demographically displaced in their own countries and they will become extinct with time, through low birth rates, mass non-European immigration, mass brainwashing and miscegenation.

You can smear and try to mock people who are noticing this, but these people are growing in numbers, in Europe and in America.

Every healthy form of life wants to preserve itself. If you think that’s “evil”, you have lost contact with basic facts of Nature.

Hello, I’m Jewish and I think that some of you should start thinking about this issue from another point of view.

I can glimpse a certain amount of hatred and hostility for Europeans among those who are against the Hungarian government. Many of them are likely to be Jewish like me. This is understandable since Jews and gentile Europeans have a long history of mutual distrust and hostility. Different ethnic groups have different interests and that leads to conflict very often.

Let’s be honest. “Diversity” is not a good thing. Each people should have their own country
in order to prevent ethnic conflict within countries. I think Orban is not very different from Benjamin Netanyahu, though Orban is not a warmonger. He just wants to preserve his people because he cares for their future and their national interests; and even if doesn’t, he talks and behaves politically as if he really did. Some fellow Jews say to gentiles: “Nationalism for me, not for thee”. I don’t agree with this doble standard. First, because it is unfair. Second, because gentiles are likely to notice this doble standard and that could lead to a backlash against Jews. I don’t want that to happen.

I’m a conservative Jew and, to be sincere, I’m becoming increasingly fed up with all this leftist nonsense that have been infecting the West since the 60’s.

Current European nationalisms have nothing to do with the old ones. They are defensive in nature and have the goal of preserving ethnic identity of demographically shrinking societies and their welfare.

One has to remember that the old nationalism of e.g. Germany was for nations with growing populations and their idea of welfare was to conquer and take land from other nations, exterminating them in the process.

Hello, I’m Jewish and I’d like to suggest that some of you should start thinking about this issue from another point of view.

I can glimpse a certain amount of hatred and hostility for Europeans, not just for European nationalists, among many of those who gather at this site, both writers and readers, who are opposed to the Hungarian government. Many of them are likely to be Jewish like me. This is understandable since Jews and gentile Europeans have a long history of mutual distrust and hostility. Different ethnic groups have different interests, and that leads to conflict very often.

Let’s be honest. “Diversity” is not a good thing. Each people should have their own country in order to prevent ethnic conflict within countries. I think Orban is not very different from Benjamin Netanyahu, though Orban is not a warmonger. He just wants to preserve his people because he cares for their future and their national interests; and even if he doesn’t, he speaks and behaves politically as if he really did. Some fellow Jews say to gentiles: “Nationalism for me, not for thee”. I don’t agree with this double standard. First, because it is unfair. Second, because gentiles are likely to notice, sooner or later, this double standard and this deceptive behaviour, and that could lead to a backlash against Jews. I don’t want that to happen.

Furthermore, I don’t want leftist SJWs in Israel preaching “tolerance”, “diversity”, “rights for minorities” and “open borders”, because I know the true meaning of all that progressive crap and its true aims, specially when those things are promoted by ethnic aliens. How do I know? Because I used to be one of those despicable SJWs when I was younger. My aim was not noble whatsoever: it was hostility for white gentile Europeans what drove me in that direction; I was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Now I’m a conservative Jew, and I can understand why Hungarians support nationalism. Their situation is even worse than that of Israeli Jews, because they don’t have the power of the US Government and military backing them, not even the power of a wealthy and influential Hungarian diaspora lobbying for Hungary. All of Western political and media machinery is against Hungarian national sovereignity.

I’m aware that most European nationalists, specially in Hungary, are not fond of Jews, but I can’t blame them for that. There are mutual grudges, let’s be honest. Jews want Hungary to be liberal like France or Sweden, but that’s not good for Hungary and its survival as a nation in this century.

Israel built a wall in order to protect itself; God bless that wall. Israel tries to keep at bay its minorities, and does not tolerate foreign hostile organizations within its borders. If it’s good for Israel, it’s good for Hungary as well.

These people must be sent back to their homeland. Who would have ever thought that Europe would take it hook line and sinker, muslims running from islam is absurd. The word “refugee” is the new Trojan horse, refugee today, terrorist tomorrow.

Why is it the responsibility of any European country to give these “refugees”(most are economic refugees) a better life. Europe has nothing to gain by letting or bringing these people in. Europe, your first and last obligation is to your people. What do the “refugees” have to offer? They bring nothing to the table.

Why don’t muslim “asylum seekers” go to Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates , Oman, Saudi Arabia or any of the other rich muslim countries? These are Islamic countries therefore more suitable for them.

Has any European country benefited by opening it’s borders to non-Europeans? Name one. Do they make Europe a safer place to live? Have they made Europe great? Are they good for tourism? Do they bring anything positive to Europe? Do they respect the citizens of Europe and the customs? Do they support themselves without burdening the tax payers? Do they burden the judicial system due to high crime rates? Do they love Europe or what they can get from her?

Do they victimize the European people in large proportions to their small numbers? Wouldn’t crimes against the European people foreshadow their true intentions? Do they trash up the areas they inhabit in Europe? If they victimize the host country’s people and trash up their land after they have been given a new start at life, wouldn’t that be like a direct “screw you”? Do they demand you to change your ways and customs so they can tolerate you? Do they respect the peoples government? Your family? Your people? Your culture?

If they are guilty of three of these questions then It would be safe to say they should not be in Europe. There is more harm than good for Europe and her people.

If a European country don’t let the hoards flood their land they are called “racist” and “Nazis” if they let them in, their country, their lives, their descendants lives will be torn apart. Which one is easier to live with? Which one does the most damage? Which choice is beneficial to the European country and it’s people? Wake up before it’s too late.

Before the EU is finished with Europe it will have done more damage than any war, ever. The EU has committed treason against the European people, they have opened the borders to the arch enemy of Europe.

ONE Problem: AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY IS WHITE GENOCIDE!!

That is the crime. It is white Genocide. It is state violence. Politicians past and present must be held accountable. ‘Just obeying orders’ is not an excuse.

The West including Canada is a culture created by a specific people and it will be destroyed if that people is dispossessed. Europeans everywhere have the self-evident right to secure their homelands for themselves, without regard to the claims others make upon it.

Nobody’s flooding Africa with Non-Africans and giving them free health care, affirmative action and special privileges.
Only White Countries are doing it, only White children are affected, and only White politicians are allowing it.

He’s absolutely right and this is also happening in North America and to an extent Australia. The narrative that pushes all of this is falling apart. European peoples as a whole do not want mass immigration. It is being pushed on us without consulting us and without our consent, not even any kind of referendum is made here.

Noel Ignatiev isn’t the only psychopath who has been pushing ideas of genocide and the related dogwhistles, either. It pervades our media and academia, especially in English-speaking countries.

I can only say thank you Viktor Orban and Hungary for having the courage to be first to stand up to what’s happening. It’s creating a domino effect and only the people enabling this are really objecting to the message. People like Angela Merkel who hire ex-Stasi war criminals to censor facebook.

Ignatiev just wants to abolish the white race as a social category, like Stalin just wanted to liquidate the kulaks as a class. How did that one turned out? Maybe the Hungarians remember who was behind Stalinism in Hungary.

We may not see it in our life time but our children and their children will live in a very uncertain future. A future of barbarism, a future of fear, a future without a heritage. There will be no quarter in our own lands and all of this for what, so another culture can live like us and have what our forefathers have left us. Our forefathers built us great civilizations, fought and died to keep these civilizations and now we are giving it to one of our oldest enemies. If something don’t change our descendants will pay the price for this liberal plan. Europe, wake up.